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In fall 2015, the Northern Michigan University (NMU) community responded with outrage after an email from the administration threatening a student with disciplinary action if they shared “self-destructive” thoughts with other students circulated on social media.

On June 16, 2016, a former University of Virginia School of Law student filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Department of Education’s (ED’s) unlawful mandate that colleges abandon due process protections and try sexual misconduct cases using the lowest standard of evidence.

In September 2015, the University of Missouri chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (MU NORML) sought to sell T-shirts to raise money for the chapter and raise awareness of marijuana policy issues.

On May 6, 2016, Harvard University announced that members of independent, single-sex, off-campus organizations would be blacklisted from Rhodes and Marshall scholarships and banned from leadership of on-campus organizations or athletic teams.

At the University of Wisconsin – Superior, a formal investigation was launched into the student newspaper the Promethean’s 2016 April Fools’ Day edition days after its publication, in response to a graduate student’s complaint that the newspaper’s articles were offensive and not clearly labeled as satirical.

In an April 22, 2016, findings letter concluding its investigation into the University of New Mexico’s policies and practices regarding sex discrimination, the Department of Justice (DOJ) found the university improperly defined sexual harassment.

After sparking a backlash by publishing a student op-ed critical of the Black Lives Matter movement in September 2015, The Wesleyan Argus was met with a petition from Wesleyan students demanding that the newspaper lose its funding.